Questions tagged [reopen-closed]
A request to reopen a closed question, or receive further explanation of why it was closed.
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Confusion about reopen vote with no actual edits shown
I sometimes see a reopen vote in the queue that looks something like this:
Here I see that the question has been edited, which is why I assume it is now in the reopen queue. But I don't see anything ...
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Marking question as "unfocused" without feedback isn't helpful
My question was closed as "unfocused". At the same time it didn't receive any kind of feedback to describe what is unfocused about it.
That's while the question has a specific and focused ...
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Problem with moderators trying to keep my question closed
I respect the moderators in general but this time their behaviour is just super weird to me. Please read these 2 links nn.embedding similar general purpose for float values how nn.Embedding algorithm ...
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How can I reopen this question?
I have a question closed by a moderator. The close banner says
This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers.
I'd like the question and I hope the question is ...
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Misunderstanding mark as duplicate question
My question1 has been marked "duplicate"2-4 and closed. I believe it's a misunderstanding, since the other question my question has been associated with is different. The other question asks why a ...
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Asking about which hypothesis testing technique? - My question is on hold
How should my question be rephrased such that you will reopen it?
3+ dependent variables, which test for measuring dependency?
I'm essentially trying to figure out how to show the relationship ...
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Why is my question "Can a human be intellectual property?" still closed? [closed]
I have a question about my Cross Validated post: Can a human be intellectual property? Why is it still closed?
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Is this question about categorical features on-topic?
The question Suggestions on using model in production 1 test at a time was closed as off-topic.
To my mind, the question content is squarely about the generalizability of a specific kind of feature (...
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Request to reopen too broad question about standard/best practice for dealing with discovered ancillary patterns not hypothesized
A couple of days ago I asked the question on main
When conducting a study, what is standard practice with patterns you find along the way? and it was put on hold earlier this morning as 'too broad'.
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Question about math notation closed as off-topic
The question "What is sigma function in the YOLO object detector?" has been closed as off-topic with the usual explanation:
This question appears to be off-topic because EITHER it is not about ...
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Is my closed question without merit?
As per the moderator my question isn't appropriate: Variance formula amplify outlier instead ignoring it!
I am learning stats and I tried many resources over internet and books but I could not get ...
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Is there a "requests for reopen" queue here on meta?
Is there a "requests for reopen" queue here on meta? I can't find it view a Google search restricted to stats.meta.stackexchange.com nor via a search within meta.
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Chaos Theory Thread Reopening Request (with a detailed answer ready)
I’m posting this thread reopening request here in keeping with the procedures outlined in the Meta post "How do you reopen a closed question?" I only learned fairly recently that my question “What are ...
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Is optimization off-topic?
I came across this thread today.
Why not use the third derivative?
It has a very good discussion both in the comments and in the answers, yet it was closed as off-topic because it is about ...
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Question is getting close votes, even after I added the requested clarification
This post has gotten 4 close votes.
I think the question is pretty clear, about the nature of AIC as model selection criteria for time series. A commenter requested that I include the code, and I ...
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How to edit my question on RBF kernel in Python so that it gets reopened?
Can someone advise on how to rephrase this question to be acceptable?
How to tune `gamma` parameter of precomputed RBF kernel in Python using `gridsearchCV` and `pipeline`?
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Why was my question on predicting weekly events closed as unclear?
My very first question here has been closed as "unclear what you're asking".
The "How to Ask" section says
Is your question about statistics?
As far as predictions belong to statistics.
We prefer ...
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Question put on hold after I already answered it: can I edit it?
The question Why does VGG16 double number of features after each maxpooling layer? was put on hold after I had already answered it. As such, I think the OP cannot accept my answer (correct?).
In ...
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Addressing reopening decisions in the review queue
Sometimes when addressing decisions to reopen a question I find that the OP has addressed the reason why the question was closed but still violates a condition for being open. As a common example a ...
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Does it take too long for questions "on hold" to be re-opened and are enough questions re-opened?
I find it a bit puzzling, regarding site moderation, that questions are put on hold quickly (that's good) but in my experience it takes forever for them to be re-opened. In a recent example from this ...
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Why was my question on combining probability distributions put on hold?
I asked a question about combining equally-likely observed PDFs: Combine three equally likely observed PDFs. I'm not sure how to combine them. I showed my best attempt so far. What more can I do?
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Question put 'on hold' was edited, but it was not reopened. Why?
Why is the question https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/268914/summation-notation still on hold in Cross Validated, after I had edited it by re-wording and providing more details?
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Is there a procedure to propose the reopening of a question?
When a question is put on hold as unclear (for example), is there a way to propose that it is reopened? Like flagging? In particular, I think this question is clear enough to be answered and I would ...
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Can moderators close questions without having the required number of votes?
I know that members with high reputations can get involve in moderator activities. For example, I have recently started to review and vote on posts that have been put into the review queue. I have ...
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Are methodological questions concerning Crowdsourcing within the scope of CV?
Recently, I posted two questions about Crowdsourcing on CV. The first one asking for a general reference got upvoted, while the second specifically asking for a more specific reference concerning ...
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My question about visualization got on hold
I think that one question I asked recently (Showing a correlation and its p-value as a color) got incorrectly in hold. The reason is because:
This question appears to be off-topic because EITHER it ...
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Question on plotting in Python closed very quickly
I have just noticed this question:
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/243679/how-can-i-make-seaborn-plot-the-null-values
The question have 9 views, and it is already voted to be closed by 5 ...
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Closed, later reopened, question on mgcv: how to review "niche" questions with substantial code content
The question R/mgcv: Why do te() and ti() tensor products produce different surfaces? has had a very interesting history. It was asked by a new user who may not be quite so aware of where we draw the (...
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Closed question - discussing differences between statistical procedures
This question was originally on stackoverflow and I flagged it to be migrated to this site. The question is framed in terms of choosing between two different SPSS procedures, which is a statistical ...
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Might someone explain why this is marked as duplicate?
This has been marked a duplicate of this. The former concerns the posterior of a normal likelihood with known mean and gamma precision; the latter, the conjugate prior of a gamma distribution.
In ...
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How far would this question about dependence and correlation have to be edited to not be deemed a duplicate?
We have a thread, Real life examples of difference between independence and correlation, which currently reads:
It is well known that independence implies zero correlation but zero correlation need ...
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Why was this question closed as unclear? Please vote to reopen it!
This question: Sum of Gaussian mixture and Gaussian scale mixture
In its current form it is clear enough. The OP did not specify the word "independent", but it is quite clear that is intended.
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Why was a question about predictive distribution closed?
The following question What is a predictive distribution? was closed for being duplicate to this one:
Understanding Bayesian Predictive Distributions
But the last question is specifically about ...
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Can anyone suggest why this post has not reopened?
The post Approaches for generating synthetic survey data with dependent answers? closed for being too broad.
The post is now far less broad (Vass edited it extensively, I've since tidied it a little) ...
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Inconsistency with closure and migration
There were two very similar posts on CV - this and the one it (almost) duplicates (at least, if you count the Q in comments, it's a duplicate). I marked the linked one as a duplicate and was in the ...
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My on hold question needs improvement
Asking about my On-hold question,
What online tools to DIY-anonymize user names (no PII concern)
I freely admit my question is naive in comparison to the included linked post. However, when I wrote ...
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